Meningitis b vaccine- petition campaign

• 900 signatures• until two-year-old Faye Burdett, from

Maidstone, Kent, caught the infection and died after 11 days on Valentine’s Day.

• 100,00 signatures afterwards.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/108072

Applied to theory: Paul Mihalidius

• Media literacy in people allows them to have the knowledge for starting and signing petitions as well as promoting the petition on social media directly such as Facebook and twitter, Making this an example of emerging citizenship.

• Digital technology has enabled the public to talk about the issue and people have now been able to create their own narrative through social media, and forums of debate.

connectivity• It is made easier for people to open new

opportunities for connecting via web 2.0. • Technologcal convergence such as smart

devices. • Through the applications on just one device,

anyone can make enlighten themselves about the issue, sign the petition, share it and give their own opinion on the debate, only using one device.

Citizenship

• Media literacy has allowed people to make the petition, sign it, share and talk about it, therefore attracting more attention from others to contribute to getting it known.

• This means that media literacy has result in emerging citizenship online.

• This is all for getting the vaccine given to everyone so that it benefits the population, making it an example of citizenship.